Howard surrendered to West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies and was booked Wednesday evening into the West Baton Rouge Parish Jail just hours after District Judge Robin Free denied bond for co-defendant Monique Kitts, who already was in custody.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested Monique Kitts shortly after the indictments were handed down March 14.

Investigators found Corey Kitts’ body on July 9, 2010, in the bedroom of his residence in the River Landing subdivision in Addis, shot in the head three times at point-blank range.

Prosecutors at Monique Kitts’ bond hearing said she hired Howard to kill her husband so she could cash in his life insurance policy.

After District Judge Robin Free judge refused Monique Kitts’ request for bond, Assistant District Attorney Tony Clayton asked the court to amend her first-degree murder charge to a lesser count of second-degree murder.

Clayton said he moved to modify the charge against her because the state no longer seeks the death penalty in her case.